New stores get footholds in Limerick’s Crescent centre

A pre-Christmas let to Butler’s Chocolates was the icing on a good year for Limerick’s Crescent Shopping Centre: it has entered 2015 with six new key brands in place

JlLL retail director, Stephen Murray, said the centre, which had low vacancy levels, “concluded an exceptionally strong 2014” with the Butler’s deal for the 1,500 sq ft former Barratts shoe store on the concourse. It is Butler’s 26th outlet.

Also in 2014, international footwear brand, Schuh, took 4,000 sq ft; it was their first major Limerick foot-hold. Irish multiple, Pulse Accessories, has taken a prominent unit of 750 sq ft, while another indigenous retailer, PAIR Mobile, took 400 sq ft in a unit formerly occupied by Vodafone, who’ve moved to a larger unit within the centre.